Ex-judges slam 'motivated' campaign against CJI Kant over Rohingya migrants

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : They said that a Supreme Court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) may be necessary to inquire into how illegally entered migrants obtained Aadhaar, ration cards and other welfare documents, and to identify networks facilitating such activities.
41% : "To convert such a constitutionally compliant approach into a charge of inhumanity is unfair to the Chief Justice and damaging to the institution," the former judges cautioned, adding that judicial independence would be at risk if every judicial question on nationality, migration, documentation or border security was met with accusations of hate or prejudice.
38% : The signatories highlighted that Rohingya migrants have not been admitted to India under any statutory refugee-protection framework; that India is neither a party to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention nor its 1967 Protocol; and that concerns over the illegal procurement of Aadhaar, ration cards, and other documents by foreign nationals merit urgent scrutiny.

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